Integrating ICT into Teaching-learning Practices: Promise, Challenges and Future Directions of Higher Educational Institutes

Abstract Education is a very socially oriented activity and quality education has traditionally been associated with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with students and technologies. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. The use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavour within business and governance. Within education, ICT has begun to have a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings and often this creates some tensions for some instructors and students. But with the world moving rapidly into digital media and information, the integration of ICT into teaching-learning practices is becoming more and mor